“The Old Dark House”
Ernest Thesiger as Horace Femm
1932
Universal Pictures
with Eva Moore
with Raymond Massey, Charles Laughton, and Gloria Stuart
Picture Play, 1932
Motion Picture Herald, July - September, 1932
Silver Screen, July 1932
“He [James Whale] heard that I was playing in New York and when the run of ‘The Devil’ ended suggested that I should come out to the coast and make a picture. I did a test in New York, which was so bad that the Hollywood authorities, I am told, roared with laughter when they saw it. However one short part of it was better than the rest and I was given a contract.”
Ernest Thesiger, from his unpublished memoir, I Was
